Lung cancer is one of the most
aggressive and lethal form of cancers. Patients with far advanced lung cancer
are treated by chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy. However, median
survival of these patients is less than 6 months. To increase survival and
quality of life for these patients, various forms of complementary treatments
have been tried in clinical practices, and oncothermia is supposed to be one of
the promising candidates. From May 2008 to November 2013, 4 patients with far
advanced lung adenocarcinoma (stages IIIB and IV) were treated with oncothermia
in addition to conventional chemotherapy at Gangnam Severance Hospital and
Bundang CHA Hospital. All these patients have survived for more than 2 years.